Worsening ocean heat waves are 'supercharging' hurricane damage, study finds
Researchers looked at 1,600 tropical #cyclones—the broader category of storms that includes #hurricanes—that made landfall since 1981 and found those that went over the extra-hot water were more likely to #intensify rapidly, a problem that's becoming more frequent. This resulted in 60% more disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damage—adjusted for inflation—when they hit land, according to a study in Friday's journal Science Advances.
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-worsening-ocean-supercharging-hurricane.html
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